What if you could move from anxious to assured with every decision you make? Dr. Anita Phillips, author of the New York Times bestselling The Garden Within, returns with a book that reveals how to grow a truly fruitful life--one right decision at a time.
A good life is made up of good choices. But in our post-pandemic, hyperconnected, information-overloaded world, anxiety plagues every decision. And when it comes to high-stakes decisions--the big life choices that affect things like our careers, finances, or relationships--anxiety can lead to decision paralysis.
In The Garden Within, Dr. Anita revealed how to flourish through embracing our emotions. Now she's back, extending the principles of seed-soil-plant-fruit that animate our inner gardens into a four-step decision-making process: knowing-feeling-thinking-doing.
A Fruitful Life combines Dr. Anita's personal stories, professional research as a licensed therapist, spiritual insights, and the latest advances in biology to give you
- a decision-making method that will profoundly impact the choices you make related to your relationships, purpose, and legacy;
- practical ways to apply wisdom so you can let go of second-guessing and regret;
- freedom to embrace the important role that emotion plays in every decision; and
- confidence in knowing there is a time-tested process for making right decisions in every area of your life.
Be empowered to step out of the anxiety you feel about present and future decisions, and embrace the peace of knowing how to make the right decision. Every time.
"How does that make you feel?'
It's a therapy joke punchline, but do therapists really ask every client that question? Yes. The not-so-funny part is how few people can answer it. For many of us, thinking is simply our default mode as we try to build a safe space for ourselves within the confines of our mind. After all, feelings can't be trusted, right? Feelings are unreliable reactions, right? It's dangerous to be emotional, right?
The mind has been enthroned as our source of control. The subjugation of feeling is celebrated while tears are equated with weakness, especially in men. The demand to separate ourselves from emotion has left most of us with an extremely limited emotional vocabulary as well as an inability to properly identify and process what we are feeling. We are getting this whole thing wrong.
In The Garden Within, Dr. Anita Phillips informs and encourages us to care for our hearts so we can understand our emotions and live free and empowered. The heart has always been our rightful guide; it's time we start listening to it.
In this six-week study, you will:
- Define man's original design as from God's heart.
- Learn to elevate your heart to a position of authority.
- Recognize the lies you believe surrounding emotions and the heart.
- Identify personal trauma and learn ways to process through it.
- Realize the daily power of faith, hope, and love.
Coordinating study guide available separately.
The Audio Bible Studies series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, this audio Bible study includes high-quality, live audio sessions from the author that cover important Bible-based topics. These sessions will reflect the ambiance of the unique recording locations, immersing the listener into the teaching. While not required for the audio experience, these studies are designed to partner with the coordinating study guide, sold separately.
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Read by the author.
Too often we've been taught to view our emotions with suspicion, seeing them as something to be suppressed, managed, or mastered. This isn't true. Emotions are not your enemy. Internal war is not your destiny. You were created to flourish.
In this game-changing book, trauma therapist and mental health expert Dr. Anita Phillips reveals how embracing emotion is the key to living your most powerful life. Just as gardens thrive in good ground, the abundant life you've been seeking can only be grown in the soil of your heart.
Blending faith, the latest discoveries in neurobiology, and her own research and work as a licensed therapist, Dr. Anita shows you how to cultivate a state of emotional well-being that can:
strengthen your body and reverse the effects of trauma,
calm anxiety and renew your mind, and
unleash a new level of spiritual power in your life.
This book will equip you with the tools you need to nurture a part of yourself that has been misunderstood for too long - your heart - setting you free to live just as the Creator intended.
AUTHENTIC. FRUITFUL. POWERFUL
Images and diagrams are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.
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